My mother and I recently found ourselves talking about Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriends Holly, Kendra and Bridget. It wasn’t a subject I thought my mother would enjoy, but she began to ask me, in that gossipy way that must be a particular gene, what I thought about Kendra’s wedding. I believe my mom’s words were “Can you imagine having that for a daughter-in-law?” And I really couldn’t. Not that Kendra really strikes me as a mean or evil person, she just strikes me as profoundly dumb and unaware of the world beyond her own narrow perspective. She also doesn’t seem to have a lot of self-awareness, so that makes for some interesting and unintentionally funny interviews.
Now, Kendra’s new husband and baby-daddy Hank Baskett comes from a very religious, very conservative family. We’ve already heard how Kendra has “changed” since she met him – apparently, Hank makes Kendra “pray” before every meal. Now Kendra is talking about her plans to raise their child in a strict Christian household:
Now that Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett are officially husband and wife the reality show duo is focusing on the next important phase – parenthood.
While Hugh Hefner’s 23-year-old former flame has led a pretty wild life (besides being Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend, the number of times she’s revealed her assets in public is well into the double digits), and said earlier this year that Baskett was helping her find God for the first time, she is determined to be a strict religious mama.
“Our child will definitely be Christian,” Wilkinson told Tarts last week, with Basket adding that they are going to be “very strict” yet still “spoil” their young ones at appropriate times.
“But they are going to have to earn it, we’re not just going to hand it to them. Most importantly, they have to keep good grades because school comes first and then everything else after that,” he explained. “Being a father is something I’ve always wanted and something Kendra and I have talked about from the time we met, we’re just truly excited and truly blessed to be becoming parents very soon. We pretty much fell in love right away and when you ask someone to marry you that means you really want them to be the woman in charge of your family, the person to be your teammate in raising the child.”
Although the expecting parents won’t find out until a few weeks what their first born’s gender is, they already have names prepared.
“If it’s a boy Hank the 4th and if it’s a girl Arianna, we love Arianna,” Wilkinson enthused. “I’m feeling so good, I’m in my 2nd trimester now at 14 weeks and I’m feeling like a whole new person, I feel great.”
[From Fox News]
How much can you really change another person? In a few years, after the new-marriage smell wears off, won’t Kendra be back to shedding her clothes and doing sudsy shower dances in Las Vegas? Did Hank marry Kendra thinking that he would get the best of both worlds – the Playboy bunny and the conservative Christian wife and mother?
Note by Celebitchy: Radar Online has photos of pregnant Kendra in a bikini on her honeymoon.
Kendra and Hank are shown on 6/22/09. Credit: WENN.com
Hank will be the strict Christian one, not Kendra.
But I think Kendra is a lot smarter than you think–she’s making big bucks off this (relatively) recent turn in her life.
Well, maybe (and I say maybe because I don’t know for sure) she has converted for *real*. You seem to think that because she has been a bunny then she is bound to repeat the same life style error of her past. Hopefully, she’ll grow. Maybe all she needed to find was a person who really loved her. Love does exist, Kaiser, and it does change your life. Just because it’s a big change it doesn’t mean it necessarily won’t stick. There are loads of people who convert! All you need in order to convert is to feel God *once* and then you find the strength to do what’s right. I don’t know for you, but I definitely root for her.
Did Hank marry Kendra thinking that he would get the best of both worlds – the Playboy bunny and the conservative Christian wife and mother?
Yes. Every man I’ve ever met has wanted the Bunny in the bedroom and the conservative on the street.
Good for her for wanting to make positive changes, but I just don’t know how well “being a strict Christian mom” is going to go for her. The internet is pretty prevalent, she can’t exactly hide her past– unless she’s looking to go the communist route and filter the entire existence of their children.
Either way, at some point they will have the question– who’s the old man in the red smoking jacket, and why is he talking about mom’s boobs?
Wow… incredible how much her life has changed.
“We pretty much fell in love right away and when you ask someone to marry you that means you really want them to be the woman in charge of your family, the person to be your teammate in raising the child.”
Despite my cynicism, that’s actually a really sweet quote! I wish them the best..
I wish her the best, i hope this marriage last. But in case it doesn’t, there’s always a stripper pole waiting for her. I saw an episode of her new show where she gave her new father-in-law playboy pics of her spreading her bits. that was soooo classy
Forgive me but was not Hank part of the pre-marriage sex that resulted in Kendra going down the aisle with baby on the way. One’s spiritual beliefs can and do change as life and time goes by, but please recognize that it is a little early to say either one is going to be a good (of any conservative religion) Christian parent. Either way I hope them all well.
God smiled on these 2 when they found each other.
You mean God laughed out loud…?
oh please
Boom, I saw the same episode. I really don’t know how she’s in the mind set she’ll change, when she has 2 stripper poles in her home. Let’s face it, her claim to fame, is sleeping with Hef.
ahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!
time will tell.
So I guess once a woman has “fallen,” it can never get better for her, huh? All doors are shut to her, except the gates of hell, right? For the righteous shall shun her and the true of heart spit upon her, an abomination to all for the rest of her days. What crap. She can do and be whatever she wants. Let’s get real. It’s 2009, people.
Yes, it’s 2009.
And instead of overcompensating for her wild past (which I don’t have any problem with other than that I find Hefner disgusting) by claiming to be a “strict christian” now, she could just be whatever she wants to be now without the repentant-sinner-label.
i love kendra. in small doses of course and through the t.v. but I think she’s a hoot.
would I want her as my accountant or DR. no. but I’d sure rather have her in playgroup than the judgmental guppies I normally meet.
holy cow, relax j.ferber– it’s nothing like that. It’s more just like, choice and accountability.
Like I said, good for her for wanting to make positive changes, but I think it would better serve her to be more realistic in her parenting endeavors; that’s all. She doesn’t have to be a free-for-all mom, but being “super strict”, probably won’t turn out much success either.
well, if she wants to be a strict christian mother, first thing she could do is cancel her reality show where she makes a fool out of herself? that’d be step one in my book *eyeroll and a half*
I think people often love to talk the talk about being Christian and upstanding etc etc but where it counts is how they live their life. They got pregnant before marriage, she’s posed nude many times for money….
And honestly, if people were more humble they’d know it’s not good to go around boasting about being such a great Christian. Just do it, stop talking about it.
AnastasiaB–Amen!
Ha. All this coming form the girl who just LAST WEEK stated that she will always “be herself” and is in the process of making a pre-natal stripper pole workout video! Good God. This woman wouldn’t knwo Christianity if it poked her in the boob. Lol.
“…profoundly dumb and unaware of the world beyond her own narrow perspective…doesn’t seem to have a lot of self-awareness…”
Sounds like most Christians I know. She’ll fit in just fine.
I dont think she’s trying to be hard core christian…she probably happens to say the word “Christian” once in a while and people are harping on it.
I just think it’s funny that someone who calls himself a strict Christian could fall for someone like Kendra in the first place. No, not even fall — actually go out on a FIRST DATE with her! Shouldn’t he have been looking for someone a little more… reserved? innocent? virginal? Sorry, I don’t mean to sound old-fashioned or puritanical, because I’m not even remotely that way in my own life — but most devout Christians I know aren’t out dating strippers or women who pose naked for magazines. Or maybe they are in private, and Hank was just confident enough to bring his rather un-Christian desires into the open!
what is it with all these strict “Christians” who have pre-marital sex and get pregnant (or impregnate their gf) before they get married?
hypocritical, uneducated and clueless.. yep just like most “christian bible freaks”.. they give real religion a terrible name.. (clearing throat).. Heidi and Spencer, Sarah Palin, Limbaugh etc… YUCK !!!!!!!!!!
granger, i’m with you… most church goers i know aren’t perusing the playboy compound for dates… *eyeroll*
it’s like a black guy who’s all about civil rights and goes and marries a white chick… isn’t your choice in a partner one of the primary ways you should exhibit your belief system? strippers, playboy bunnies and hef’s play things does not equal good christian.
Well, I will give her the benefit of a doubt.
Isn’t that what Christianity is about? Every saint has a past every sinner has a future!
One of my favorite quotes.
Yes, she may have gotten pregnant before she was married and showed everybody her lady bits, but what matters now is what she does with her present and future. Right?
While I think she’ll be a great mother, I think it will be difficult to set an example when your past is not only common knowledge, but documented in print and broadcast for years at a time.
Um, we’re not all like that.
Yes Kendra, then your crotch goblins will see your n*u*d*e pix or find out how mom shared the bed of a dirty old p*o*r*n master with two other women and you will truly reap what you have sown on that day.
She’s not as loud and obnoxious on her show as she was on “Girls Next Door”. Either Hank has really changed her,or she doesn’t have to compete with other women for camera time.
She’s not “making changes.” She’s growing up. MOST people are not clubbing fiends forever. Somewhere in the mid-twenties, we decide to put away childish and slutty things in favor of a life that will mean something to us beyond the moment.
I’ve never understood this need to make women out to be hypocrites or worse because they had fun in their youth but then grow up and champion a life of some sort of value.
It’s not hypocrisy…it’s maturity and an acknowledgement that one phase of her life is ending.
Cynicism and jealousy are ugly qualities.
Yes, Aspen, you’re right. But this culture has a problem with letting women move on from past behavior. They’d rather label and condemn them forever (“once a ho, always a ho” or “you can’t turn a ho into a housewife”). Men, on the other hand, can walk away unscathed from even the most reprehensible behavior. “He’s young,” “He made a mistake,” “His childhood was bad,” “It was her fault, too,” “we don’t know what really happened,” etc. A myriad of excuses free men from the consequences of their actions. That’s why a bride wears white and a groom wears black. Any little thing can besmirch her, whereas he’s unsullied no matter what. Choices and accountability? When the standards are the same for both sexes, then let’s talk about that.
What gives non believers the right to demean and speak out against a Christians beliefs? I have taken offense to some of these comments, especially TIA. I am a Christian. I’ll have you know that being a Christian does not make one dumb or un-educated, and we are not all “Bible freaks.” I graduated with a 4.1 and got a full ride scholarship to Indiana State through my CHRISTIAN SCHOOL. Am I unaware of the world around me? NO. If anything I am MORE educated about this world. Have i said anything against non-Christians or unbelievers? NO. Because I am better than that. To each his own, Live and Let Live…whatever works for you. I know I dont live my life perfect but I sure as hell give people the benefit of the doubt when they find GOD, peace in their decisions, and happiness in their lives.
**Ooohh, I said hell***
I think the first thing she should do is quite drinking. I hope the baby is born healthy with the way she drinks on her show. I don’t think she is mature enough to have a child. She doesn’t know how to do anything around the house. It takes a lot of work and I don’t think she is that ambitious. Baby’s need a lot of attention.
Um Stacey? You can climb down from the pulpit now…’true’ Christians don’t feel the need to go on and on publically about their Christianity or defend it to…what did you call us? Oh yes unbelievers….
After I got through laughing at the idea of Kendra’s Christianity (nakedness anyone?) I am in agreemeement with the poster who said….
“Oh PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!”
Stacy, how do you graduate with a 4.1 GPA when the top mark is a 4.0? Just wondering.
I wasnt preaching, drm. My text was not written in spite. I was simply making a point that being a Christian does not make us dumb, stupid, or unaware like a previous poster had written. Im sure I would have gotten a response if i wrote that i thought non-Christians were dumb, stupid, and unaware. I dont believe that for a second. I was just excercising my right to an opinion.
Ferber- its called extra credit and honors classes. My sister graduated with a 4.3. So it is very possible.
All I know is that I hope God gives her the chance to raise their Baby Period,and the poor thing doesn’t end up institutionalized. The drinking I hope is for ratings and there is actually water or sparkling apple juice in any of her consumptions, so that she doesn’t end up giving birth to a Baby with FAS (fetal alcchol syndrome) and while someone educates her on that issue,that is very real and possible. I wish they would tell her also that in the real world that is a lovely shade of Lilac Maternity “Top”. Dressing like that tells me she isn’t going to change! She should just show her real color when she met Hef and now Hank which we all know is Green, and not with or for envy but Money! Speaking of Envy, I bet ya Holly is eating her Heart Out!
Kendra remember Actions Speak Louder Than Words! Wonder if Hank can hear an echo and for how Long will it resound before she lets you know she got you by the Balls! Footballs!